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- Advertising Technology
NetLinePortal: Capture B2B Buyer Intent with the Largest CPL Marketplace
B2B marketers face an increasingly uphill battle: engaging the right buyers at the right time with content that converts. Whether you’re managing in-house campaigns or leading demand gen efforts for clients, the challenge remains the same—delivering high-quality, intent-driven leads that turn into pipeline. Most lead generation efforts struggle because they rely on static lists, broad targeting, or outdated performance models.…
- Sales and Marketing Training
How to Protect Your Business from the Growing Threat of Invoice Fraud in the Martech Era
The average enterprise uses well over 100 tools across its stack—each one potentially requiring a license, subscription, or recurring service contract. Combine this sprawling martech ecosystem with decentralized teams, automated accounting systems, and often fragmented procurement workflows, and you have the perfect breeding ground for a growing threat: fraudulent invoicing scams. These scams are no longer limited to crude phishing…
- Content Marketing
WordPress Sidebar Widget and Shortcode for Playing Podcasts
If you’ve ever utilized the default RSS widget for WordPress and entered a Podcast RSS feed, you’ll notice that it only displays the title and description. That’s because the iTunes standard for podcast feeds adds additional tags for the image associated with a podcast as well as the location of the podcast file itself. Despite WordPress having its own audio…
- Content Marketing
13 Ways to Increase the ROI of Your Content Marketing
Maybe this should infographic could have been one giant recommendation… get readers to convert! Seriously, we’re a bit confounded on how many companies are writing mediocre content, not analyzing their customer base, not analyzing their competitor’s content, and not developing longer-term strategies to drive readers into customers. My go-to research on this is from Jay Baer who identified years ago…
- Sales and Marketing Training
Goodhart’s Law: When Marketing Is Not About “Making Money”
If two words in this industry make me groan and walk away, it’s the phrase making money. Marketing technology has advanced extraordinarily, giving brands unprecedented tools to target, engage, and convert customers more efficiently than ever. AI-driven analytics, hyper-personalized messaging, and automated customer journeys can guide prospects seamlessly from awareness to purchase with remarkable precision. But as marketing becomes more effective…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Xant: Revolutionizing Sales Productivity with AI-Powered Playbooks
Organizations face numerous challenges when it comes to optimizing their sales processes, engaging prospects effectively, and ultimately driving revenue growth. Sales teams often struggle with managing lead follow-up, prioritizing activities, and ensuring consistent performance across the board. However, there is a solution that can help overcome these obstacles and propel sales teams to new heights of success. Xant (formerly InsideSales)…
- Content Marketing
The High Cost of Web Design Failures is Too Common
When you read these two statistics, you’re going to be shocked. More than 45% of all businesses don’t have a website. And of the DIY’s (Do-It-Yourselfers) that embark on building a site, 98% of them fail in publishing one at all. This doesn’t even count the number of businesses that have a website that simply isn’t driving leads… which I…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Gravity SMTP: Ensure Reliable Email Delivery of Form Leads Using Gravity SMTP
A colleague of mine requested my assistance after he migrated a client’s WordPress site to a new host, and the email notifications from their Gravity Forms weren’t making it to the client’s inbox. Response times are critical to closing business nowadays, and if you don’t respond quickly, a competitor that does will likely get your business. A quick look and…
- Analytics & Testing
Affinity: Leverage Your Network To Close More Deals With This Relationship Intelligence Platform and Analytics
The average customer relationship management (CRM) solution is a pretty static platform… a database of connections, their activities, and; perhaps, some integrations with other systems that provide additional insight or marketing opportunities. Simultaneously, every connection in your database has strong, influential connections to other consumers and business decision-makers. This extension of your network is untapped, though. What is Relationship Intelligence?…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
WordPress Plugin: How to Add a Lightweight, Custom Pinterest Pinit Button on Image Hover
If you run a WordPress site and want to make your content more shareable on Pinterest, one of the simplest yet most effective enhancements is adding a Pin It button that appears when users hover over images. While Pinterest offers an official widget script to handle this functionality, many site owners prefer a lighter, more controlled approach that doesn’t rely…
